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Ron doesn't want us talking about Jose's MVP.

According to the Global Cities Index, Chicago is 8th in the world, 3rd in North America. https://www.kearney.com/global-cities/2019 Toronto is 18th. Mexico City doesn't rank. Population ain't everything.

3rd city you heathen

130 Secret Service members got coronavirus or quarantining from Trump rallies https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-service-coronavirus-outbreak/2020/11/13/610eebcc-2539-11eb-8672-c281c7a2c96e_story.html

Fixed

I said many

Personally, I don't think any part of the party is responsible for the race being close. What happened was what a lot of us didn't realize - Trump enlarged his base, whereas most of us thought it stayed stagnant. So Biden built a massive blue wave - built mostly on the back of defying Trump - that ran into massive red wave. The big issue is that there aren't many split ticket voters anymore, except apparently in Maine. Graham and McConnell were always going to be tough orders (McConnell was always nigh impossible). Collins was a disappointment. Cunningham dropped the ball with a sexting scandal of all things.

I can't wait for him to mentor Vaughn.

Regarding the first point: Because all progressive policies aren't going to carry everywhere in a big tent party. AOC can win in any sapphire blue district - she gets obliterated in Spanberger or Lamb's districts. But we've been having this discussion ad nauseum for the past few pages. The problem isn't even really policies, it's branding. The Affordable Care Act is popular as hell. Obamacare less so. Because people don't bother digging into policy. Bernie didn't run on "defund the police" because it's an albatross of a slogan - make it "unburden the police" with exact same framework and the moderate vote/never Trump conservatives jump right on board. The flip side is I had a (progressive) friend furious during the debates because he was upset that Biden wouldn't say "defund the police" even though he was outlining the policies of redistributing the responsibilities to appropriate parties - he just wanted him to say it for some reason. Regarding the second point: The Democrats have been pushing policy. They've been passing bills (which die in the Senate). They've been pushing a $15 minimum wage, student debt relief, voting rights, immigrants rights, helping DREAMers, net neutrality, addressing climate change, net neutrality, etc. Here's a small list of bills that have died on McConnell's desk. If the party could unite and run on these, it'd be much easier. Instead they have the Gregs of the world believing that AOC dictates the entire party platform with Medicare for All and the Green New Deal, so now all Democrats have to run with that (if they support it) or on defense (if they don't, according to the politics of their district).

I just wanna say this list needs a way, way deeper dive. - Max Rose represents Staten Island, a place with heavy police presence. I'm sure "defund the police" harmed him greatly. - Debbie Murcasel-Powell (26th, Florida only has 27 districts) and Donna Shalala suffered from Donald Trump's heavy "Biden is a socialist" down ballot messaging. That messaging resonated with Cuban voters in Florida - it's why the state went red. - Medicare for All would not play well at all in Peterson, Cunningham, or Horn's districts. Having Peterson - a near 30 year incumbent and the most conservative Dem in the house from the most conservative district here - on here is really just trying to pad the stats. (I say this as someone who would love to have Medicare for All in this country)

A great year for a great dude

https://slate.com/culture/2020/01/mets-rape-accusation-spring-training-1991.html

If this ain't accurate, I don't know what is.

This is a whole other topic. Edit: Regarding the disparity in punishment - obviously our justice system really only specializes in punishment vs. rehabilitation, but for the wealthy (such as Tony "Hall of Fame baseball person" La Russa), it's a lot easier to get out of things.

But is he sincere

Greg hates journalists.

Looks like we're riding and dying with him for a few months.

Which they do all the time. Show yourselves you coward.

To be fair, Tony La Russa did that back in February.

Don't even try to be subtle. Yoan putting in work.

Fegan is a god send.

Man, I fucking feel for Boyer here. You can tell why he's exasperated in this email.

Hah! You think La Russa respects anyone.

Tony La Russa: He shows respect to authority figures.

Greg committed voter fraud. I know because Rudy G said there was fraud committed by all people named Greg.